Dead Dog Alley

There's one unfortunate difference - the Riverside game didn't get rained out. If only it had.

On the other hand, Walker shot 26% from the free throw line and Stevenson played on a team that lost 19 straight games. I think the proclamation that they would be starting at most Big Ten teams is a bit speculative.

Ch_at___ M___er Fu_ke_s. It's true, you can't spell that without "Creighton".

Kevin Cross is now 11 for his last 53 attempts from the field. Not many have accomplished that.

It's not often where you can identify someone as being the absolute worst, in the whole entire world. But you can with Michigan's PA announcer. The absolute worst. A pox on Michigan athletics for employing him.

I saw Johnny Benjamin playing pick-up games one night at the Coliseum. He was absolutely amazing. The direction his life went is a damn shame.

I do not know who the mystery big man recruit was supposed to be, but Bruce Chubick referenced the situation it in a radio interview a few years ago. He didn't mention a name, but it was about Bruce having to move to center his senior year because the guy didn't come here. As for the Wilt claim, I've heard it from a couple of places but the only source I remember is Mike Babcock talking about it in interviews. He said that he heard it from Nate Branch. I think the story went that Wilt was at Nate's high school and heard that he was going to Nebraska, and said that Kansas and Nebraska were his top two choices when he was going to college.

Well... attendance that day was only 300 short of the season high that year (against the loss and a tie and a fifth down national champion), so maybe you're misremembering. But every week there was an allotment from the opposing team that would come back and have to be sold late, sometimes they'd be bought up legitimately, sometimes they'd be bought by businesses and distributed by them. That and the 2013 Wyoming game were the most miserable night games ever. Hotter than hell. Kenny Walker lost 13 pounds during the game. I got stranded downtown afterwards, and with it being the pre cell-phone era and myself still being underage by a week I had to borrow an ID so I could get into the Sidetrack Tavern and find my friends. Somebody dumped a beer on my head and it was refreshing, since it was about 110° in there. Yes, I remember that day. Also, Baylor coach Grant Teaff, who has the Fellowship of Christian Athletes coach of the year award, was absolutely hated by Tom Osborne. Why? Because he was a massive cheat. Some things never change.

I can just hear Kent saying "Kobe passes to Kobe, back to Kobe, Kobe shoots, rebound by Kobe, out to Kobe for a 3, BANG-A-RANG!"

I'd have been surprised if we had ended up with a tournament win that year, in that circumstance. I would not have been surprised if we'd ended up with 2 or 3 or 4.

Or if Hoppen stays healthy, Deak Vance stays eligible, and Moe swallows his pride and plays Bill Jackman.

Since we're on the topic of roster speculation, which one of these teams is the best Nebraska team that never was? 2019 - no Copeland injury, Jordy T sticks around 2018 - Jacobson or/and Ed or/and Horne stick around 2017 - AW the third doesn't turn into AW the turd, and Anton Gill is 100% 2016 - Petteway and Pitchford don't leave 2015 - Petteway and Pitchford don't fall apart, Biggs still here and productive 2014 - Biggs finds a way to coexist with the rest of the team 2013 - JBD and Standhardinger as seniors 2012 - no injuries, Standhardinger 2011 - Standhardinger finds a way to coexist with the rest of the team 2010 - with Sallie 2009 - admissions office doesn't fumble Sallie and JBD 2008 - Rishaan Norwood makes it, Joe McCray somehow still around 2007 - Joe McCray still there, Wilkinson and Dourisseau had redshirted 2006 - Joe McCray doesn't indulge in doobies and Big Macs that summer 2005 - someone else is coaching 2004 - someone else is coaching 2003 - someone else is coaching 2002 - someone else is coaching 2001 - Truscott and Walker still there, and someone else is coaching 2000 - no Belcher injury, Alvin Mithcell never transfers 1999 - Lue doesn't go pro 1998 - Mikki Moore had redshirted, Ideus and Mitchell still around 1997 - Surles, Ideus don't transfer 1996 - Gary Bargen still on the staff or someone else was head coach, no attitude problems from Boone 1995 - no attitude problems from Boone, Woolridge hadn't left 1994 - the mystery big man Danny thought was coming had showed up, Woolridge doesn't leave 1993 - Amos Gregory doesn't come in 50 lbs overweight 1992 - Farmer and Ramos stick around 1991 - Lewis Geter hadn't transferred, Johnny Benjamin had better hobbies than drugs and holdups And so on.

As regarding football: look at the schedule the next two years; look at the roster with 14 scholarship seniors, 18 scholarship juniors, and 10 scholarship sophomores; and draw your own conclusions. The coaching staff has not proven to be miracle workers yet, so no one should be expecting any miracles. In hoops if we're not doing anything by year 4, there's real problems. A lack of success by then would end any recruiting momentum, attendance would probably drop, the Big Ten will still need a couple whipping boys at the bottom so they can get 9 in the tournament so they'll do their best to keep us there, etc.

Lance Jeter, Keith Moody, Caleb Walker. The three best junior college basketball transfers ever at Nebraska that started their college careers playing football.

Just warning you, if you happen to be funny looking, people might think you're on the Iowa roster...

How could you mention that CU team without also mentioning Rodell Guest? He's the only one that had a nickname.

At least we’re not getting hammered by the refs because we’re playing a team worried about seeding. instead, it’s because the Big Ten just absolutely hates us and wants us stuck in the cellar.

Jim Ross used to make “Rock Bottom” sound much more exciting than it actually is...

What happened next? Did he fix their cable?

Listening to Bardo always motivates me to listen to someone else.

He was wearing a red uniform with a script "Nebraska" on it.

Four returning starters, one an NBA draft pick, another a returning all-conference player, another a five star recruit, the other a four year starting point guard; the fifth starter a guy Kansas tried to recruit. Which added up to a 6-14 conference record.

Big Ten officiating ranks up there with toxic waste and herpes.

Or, as I’d like to call it, the most God-foresaken month in the history of the world.

Usually if you recruit the mom first you have a pretty good shot.